Thoughts are a ball in a pinball game
Dec. 25th, 2021 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichChristmas Day. We both woke up early and are lazing about waiting for an appropriate time to open our stockings. Both of us are feeling like we could go back to bed - but doubt that we'd actually fall asleep - so he's reading a book and I'm fusting around on my new (early Christmas present) computer. I did make him open one gift this morning though, so he has his new house slippers on. He likes shoe-like slippers that cup your heel while I like slide ons. Last hear I got him mules and he hates them but has been dealing with it all year. I wasn't so good. He got me ones that were shoe-like and I only wore them twice before I stuck them in our donation bag. I've been wearing my old slippers for about three years now. The poor things are looking a bit scruffy! Since I rarely leave the house they've been worn each and every day all that time. I wonder if I'll get a new pair today.
I have developed a bit of a fear about our plans to retire to the Las Vegas area. We are both politically moderate, which nowadays seems to mean that we're both viewed as Liberals. The Vegas area is very red, and with the split becoming more and more violent I worry that we'll be leaping into a bad situation since we'll be in the minority. Where we live now is pretty blue. Or maybe I should say "pretty mixed but leaning more liberal than conservative". I don't really want to live someplace where a tree-hugger or a Black Lives Matter sticker on our car may get us shot. And yeah, I think that concern is growing more possible daily.
I have to give up on building my Lego Winter Village, maybe for the whole year. I finally noticed on the calendar that I have three weeks to draft patterns for and put together two deels for us and two undertunics for a friend. I don't work quickly anymore so I'm feeling the pressure already. I also want to make decorated cookies and maybe candied nuts to give as Twelfth night gifts and that is looking a little iffy too. The nuts popped up because of a youtube recipe I stumbled over and remembered how much they were loved locally when a past Baroness used to give them out as 12thNight gifts. Those little packages were hotly defended. She hasn't been in the SCA for about twenty years now and the memory is likely faint for local folks but I bet if I made some it'd still come close to getting the same reception. And thank goodness making a batch of those is a one-evening sort of project. My decorated cookies take a couple of days to ice.
The supplier for my Dexcom unit contacted me last week and I'll be getting the initial package next week. I expect that intense YouTube viewing and googling will take place while I learn how to set it up to communicate with my phone. I did not succeed with the Freestyle app (but then, the freestyle monitor thingy was really off) but I've read good reviews about the Dexcom. And a young girl who is type 1 diabetic has been using hers for a few years with no problems. If she can do it, I can do it, right?
Our youngest just told us that he and his household have contracted Covid. Thankfully he's vaxxed and boosted so his bout is pretty mild. Just an overnight fever and some coughing. His sweetheart is not vaccinated (this does not surprise me) so she is suffering. She's still at home though, so it's not as bad as it could be.
I have developed a bit of a fear about our plans to retire to the Las Vegas area. We are both politically moderate, which nowadays seems to mean that we're both viewed as Liberals. The Vegas area is very red, and with the split becoming more and more violent I worry that we'll be leaping into a bad situation since we'll be in the minority. Where we live now is pretty blue. Or maybe I should say "pretty mixed but leaning more liberal than conservative". I don't really want to live someplace where a tree-hugger or a Black Lives Matter sticker on our car may get us shot. And yeah, I think that concern is growing more possible daily.
I have to give up on building my Lego Winter Village, maybe for the whole year. I finally noticed on the calendar that I have three weeks to draft patterns for and put together two deels for us and two undertunics for a friend. I don't work quickly anymore so I'm feeling the pressure already. I also want to make decorated cookies and maybe candied nuts to give as Twelfth night gifts and that is looking a little iffy too. The nuts popped up because of a youtube recipe I stumbled over and remembered how much they were loved locally when a past Baroness used to give them out as 12thNight gifts. Those little packages were hotly defended. She hasn't been in the SCA for about twenty years now and the memory is likely faint for local folks but I bet if I made some it'd still come close to getting the same reception. And thank goodness making a batch of those is a one-evening sort of project. My decorated cookies take a couple of days to ice.
The supplier for my Dexcom unit contacted me last week and I'll be getting the initial package next week. I expect that intense YouTube viewing and googling will take place while I learn how to set it up to communicate with my phone. I did not succeed with the Freestyle app (but then, the freestyle monitor thingy was really off) but I've read good reviews about the Dexcom. And a young girl who is type 1 diabetic has been using hers for a few years with no problems. If she can do it, I can do it, right?
Our youngest just told us that he and his household have contracted Covid. Thankfully he's vaxxed and boosted so his bout is pretty mild. Just an overnight fever and some coughing. His sweetheart is not vaccinated (this does not surprise me) so she is suffering. She's still at home though, so it's not as bad as it could be.
